Garfield CS 2nd Place in 2013 Fall Programming Contest

Garfield’s “Dawgbotics Software” Team takes 2nd Place at the Fall PSCSTA Programming Contest at UW!

246 students in 91 teams representing 24 schools competed in the semi-annual fall PSCSTA Programming Contest, held on Dec 14th at UW’s Paul Allen Center. Garfield had 7 teams programming for 3 hours, and our Dawgbotics Software team of William, Rowan & Mack took 2nd place in the Advanced division. This was the biggest event in PSCSTA’s history as computer science’s popularity grows. The competition was part of Computer Science Education week which included the International Hour of Code where over 15 million students world-wide wrote over Half a Billion lines of code! (Check out our other events this past week: Garfield Computer Science Week 2013)

Beside programming, students attended a presentation by UW’s Kate Starbird titled “Data Science to the Rescue” showing how Social Media Data is being used to help out during disasters and events. And students are invited to try this, applying their problem solving & programming skills to a data set through the Paul Allen Computing Challenge to win great prizes including Kindle Tablets for teams who complete the competition — more details here.